tgobob
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If you check the postings on this subject you will find that most of them come from folks in the northeast. In our travels all over North America (except Mexico) we have found the campgrounds in the northeast to be the most unfriendly and the most unaccomodating. For example, we wanted to have 2 relatives join us for dinner in our coach. They wouldn't arrive until 6 PM. Because it was fall, virtually all of the amenities in the park were closed. We were still charged $5 per person. Another time we wanted a 79 year old cousin to see our coach and have a drink. Again, it was fall, it was at night, and none of the amenities in the campground was open. Again, they wanted to charge us $5 for a 1 hour visit. In checking further we found that the Connecticut campground owners' association actually encouraged this practice by its members. Perhaps if the northeast campground owners became a bit more friendly they might find their results would be better.
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Every one is taking cues from the Airlines and are charging(gouging) for anything they can Pretty soon they will charge more if you have a tag axle. I thought I understood capitalism but IMHO this is acting like JP MORGAN-CHASE in that I will hide from you what the real charges are. Just remember I think there are to many inhibiting regulations that require more transparency.
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KOA stands for KEEP ON ADDING and IMHO are the initiator of most of these type of charges.
tmmar wrote:I stayed at the Elizabethtown/Hershey KOA in October. Wanted to have 2 friends join us for dinner one evening and they charged us $20 for them to visit for approx. 2 hours. That, IMHO, is excessive!!
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mike4947
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It is not limited to private parks. NYS campgrounds make you pay a day pass for any and all visitors. This does not allow the people to stay over night.
IIRC originally put in for campgrounds with picnic areas and swimming to stop the camping folks from inviting the neighborhood and all their relatives up for the day. Has since spread to all the campgrounds.
While it's a pain I can see why they do it even if you say they'll only be there for an hour. Much time would be invested in trying to police the visitors and their length of stay.
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topflite51
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I think some people need to get out more. I have stayed in private, county parks, state parks and even federal parks were day use/visitors are charged for. I even stayed in one resort rv park where the charge for visitors (up to 6 hours) was $10 each and they had to park their car in the parking lot and walk up to our site. Of course their reasoning was quite simple, there was parking for one car and ONLY one car at each site.
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Well I think $12.00 is way to high, I think $3-4.00 is kind of fair in that it;s allows the parks to keep there prices down and fair to those with only 2 people who most likely are self contained.
The more people in a RV the more likely they are to use more of the campground facilities. Like it or not extra people usually creates extra work for the campground.
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Pawz4me
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topflite51 wrote:I think some people need to get out more. I have stayed in private, county parks, state parks and even federal parks were day use/visitors are charged for.
Ditto. We usually only stay in private campgrounds, but we've visited friends and family at all sorts of places and guests charges aren't unusual at any of them. $12 seems way too high, though.
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Jim@HiTek
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Yikes. I've stayed at 3 different campgrounds over the last couple weeks and they all charged $2 per extra person over two. But I'm in the West. Think I'll skip visiting the Northeast. Keep hearing about policies up there being very restrictive. And RV parks with extra high overnight charges. JMO.
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path1 wrote:Quote:If you check the postings on this subject you will find that most of them come from folks in the northeast. In our travels all over North America (except Mexico) we have found the campgrounds in the northeast to be the most unfriendly and the most unaccomodating.
That is what I've noticed also. We are putting together a east coast trip and was surprized to find Rving in NE harder to boondock, overnight and RV in general. IMO I guess that is why there is the term "stealth" camping. But certainly "RVing in general" certainly is not any harder here in the NE than it is in the Washington State. We have lots of nice state parks and private campgrounds.
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